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Month August 1962 Calendar

About Month of August Calendar

  • August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

    August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).

Historical Events for August, 1962

  • Day of Week 5th » Apartheid in South Africa: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
  • Day of Week 6th » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  • Day of Week 11th » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in Micro-g environment known as microgravity.
  • Day of Week 15th » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
  • Day of Week 16th » Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
  • Day of Week 17th » East Germany or East German border guards Killing of Peter Fechter or kill Peter Fechter, 18, as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.
  • Day of Week 22nd » An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
  • Day of Week 27th » The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
  • Day of Week 30th » Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
  • Day of Week 31st » Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1962

  • 1st » Jesse Borrego, American actor and singer
  • 1st » Jacob Matlala, South African boxer (d. 2013)
  • 2nd » Cynthia Stevenson, Canadian actress
  • 4th » Roger Clemens, American baseball player and actor
  • 4th » Paul Reynolds (musician) or Paul Reynolds, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (A Flock of Seagulls)
  • 5th » Richard de Groen, New Zealand cricketer
  • 5th » Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-American basketball player and coach
  • 5th » Otis Thorpe, American basketball player
  • 6th » Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor
  • 6th » Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
  • 7th » Alison Brown, American banjo player, songwriter, and producer (Northern Lights (bluegrass band) e.g Northern Lights)
  • 7th » Bruno Pelletier, Canadian singer
  • 7th » Alain Robert, French rock climber
  • 8th » Kool Moe Dee, American rapper (Treacherous Three)
  • 9th » Louis Lipps, American football player and radio host
  • 9th » Kevin Mack, American football player
  • 9th » John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player
  • 10th » Suzanne Collins, American author and screenwriter
  • 10th » Julia Fordham, English singer-songwriter
  • 10th » Alan Muraoka, American actor and director
  • 11th » Brian Azzarello, American author
  • 11th » Charles Cecil, English video game designer and co-founded Revolution Software
  • 11th » Uvais Karnain, Sri Lankan cricketer
  • 11th » John Micklethwait, English journalist
  • 11th » Rob Minkoff, American director and producer
  • 11th » Ennis Whatley, American basketball player
  • 13th » Thanos Kalliris, Greek singer-songwriter (Bang (band) e.g Bang)
  • 13th » John Slattery, American actor and director
  • 14th » Lady Bunny, American drag queen performer
  • 14th » Mark Gubicza, American baseball player and sportscaster
  • 14th » Andres Herkel, Estonian politician
  • 14th » Rameez Raja, Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster
  • 15th » Tom Colicchio, American chef and author
  • 15th » Vilja Savisaar-Toomast, Estonian politician
  • 16th » Steve Carell, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 16th » Manfred Hellmann, German footballer
  • 17th » John Marshall Jones, American actor
  • 17th » Buddy Landel, American wrestler
  • 17th » Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, German actor and director
  • 18th » Felipe Calderón, Mexican politician, 56th President of Mexico
  • 18th » Geoff Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 19th » Valérie Kaprisky, French actress
  • 19th » Raimonds Vilde, Latvian volleyball player and coach
  • 19th » Toll Yagami, Japanese drummer (Buck-Tick)
  • 20th » Sophie Aldred, English actress
  • 20th » Tammy Bruce, American radio host and author
  • 20th » Song Dong-Wook, South Korean tennis player
  • 20th » James Marsters, American actor
  • 21st » John Korfas, Greek-American basketball player and coach
  • 21st » Tsutomu Miyazaki Japanese serial killer (d. 2008)
  • 21st » Jeff Stryker, American porn actor and director
  • 23rd » Martin Cauchon, Canadian lawyer and politician, 46th Minister of Justice (Canada) known as Minister of Justice for Canada
  • 23rd » Shaun Ryder, English singer-songwriter and actor (Happy Mondays and Black Grape)
  • 24th » Major Garrett, American journalist
  • 24th » Craig Kilborn, American actor and talk show host
  • 24th » David Koechner, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 24th » Emile Roemer, Dutch educator and politician
  • 25th » Māris Bružiks, Latvian triple jumper
  • 25th » Vivian Campbell, Irish guitarist and songwriter (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio (band) e.g Dio, Thin Lizzy, and Sweet Savage)
  • 25th » Shahid Mahboob, Pakistani cricketer
  • 25th » David Packer, American actor
  • 25th » Michael Zorc, German footballer and manager
  • 26th » Bob Mionske, American cyclist and lawyer
  • 27th » Vic Mignogna, American voice actor, singer, and director
  • 27th » Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 28th » Paul Allen (footballer) called Paul Allen, English footballer
  • 28th » Craig Anton, American actor and screenwriter
  • 28th » David Fincher, American director and producer
  • 29th » Carl Banks, American football player and sportscaster
  • 29th » Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
  • 29th » Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese game designer and composer
  • 29th » Lycia Naff, American dancer, actress, and journalist
  • 29th » Simon Thurley, English historian and academic
  • 31st » Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor and singer
  • 31st » Thomas Suozzi, American politician

Famous Deaths for August 1962

  • 5th » Marilyn Monroe, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1926)
  • 8th » Elizabeth Ann Duncan, American murderer (d. 1904)
  • 9th » Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
  • 15th » Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940)
  • 23rd » Walter Anderson (folklorist) e.g Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885)
  • 23rd » Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1892)

Calendar for the year 1962 and a calender for the month of August

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